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Rugelach Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

  • 3 cups wheat flour Type 500 "Krupczatka" or All-Purpose
  • 2 egg yolks
  • ¾ cup unsalted butter
  • ¾ cup sour cream
  • 3 tbs cane or powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp dry active yeast
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ tsp lemon zest
  • ¼ tsp salt

Filling

  • 1 cup plum butter

Instructions

  1. In a medium bowl, combine sour cream, egg yolks, sugar, yeast, lemon zest, vanilla, and salt.

    Sour cream and eggs
  2. Mix it well together using a whisk or hand mixer.

  3. In a separate bowl, combine butter and flour.

    dry and wet ingredients
  4. Slowly add the flour combined with butter to the rest of the ingredients, and using your hands, knead all the ingredients until well combined.

    mix the dough by hand
  5. Cover the dough with a plastic wrap and place it in the fridge for at least 2-3 hours. You can also leave it overnight.

    mixed dough
  6. When you're ready to bake your Rugelach cookies, start by preheating the oven to 350° Fahrenheit or about 180° Celsius.

  7. Remove the dough from the fridge and take half a portion of the dough.

    roll out the dough
  8. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough into a circle of about 12 inches in diameter or about 30 cm.

    dough
  9. Using a pizza cutter, cut off the uneven edges and then cut the circle in eight equal slices.

    slices
  10. Take plum butter and using a butter knife spread about a teaspon of plum butter on each piece.

    plum
  11. Roll each piece from outside in and then twist gently into a crescent.

    roll crescents
  12. Repeat for each piece to form your Rugelah cookies and place them on a cookie sheet lined with perchament paper. You should get a batch of about 24-26 cookies.

    cookies
  13. Bake for 20-25 minutes maximum.

  14. Sprinkle the cooled cookies lightly with some powdered sugar.